Cup Kate Party

Birthday parties are lots of fun. Our little cupcake just turned 1!

We celebrated Kate's first birthday with a cupcake themed party. Kate dressed up for the occasion wearing a shirt I made her and her first pair of pink "chucks." We decided to make the entire party all about Kate. This meant only serving Kate's favorite foods. And everyone got to drink from a straw. Because Kate has always been a huge straw drinker. I made a garland out of different sized cupcake papers to hang over the dining room table. It turned out pretty cute. For dessert we had awesome cupcakes! The cupcakes were almost too pretty to eat, but let me tell you...they tasted even better than they looked.

Kate loved eating macaroni, green beans and french fries. All of her favorite foods.

Kate loved opening her presents. We knew she would love this part because she loves paper. She loves to rip it and then eat it! Too many presents for a little girl.

I realized awhile ago that Kate would not be able to blow out the candle on her cake unless I taught her. So every night leading up to her b-day we practiced. Kate has learned to blow on demand the only problem is that she can't blow very hard. So needless to say, I had to help Kate blow out our cupcake candle. She needed no help eating her cake.


We had a great party thanks to our families. Thanks for being there to celebrate our little cupKate's first birthday.

Happy Birthday Kate!

Halloween

I know its late, but here are highlights from our Wizard of Oz themed Halloween Celebrations! With Julianne and cousin Emilia in town, we all decided to get dressed up. Before the big day we all went to a trunk or treat and did a "practice run" of how to go trick or treating. Kate would have preferred to go to only 1 car and then stop. In her eyes she didn't need more candy and she wanted to eat her one piece right then. Here is Kate with grandma and her lollipop.

Here is Grandpa with his 2 granddaughters. Cute girls. Too bad Kate kept eating her costume.

Here is the whole crew dressed as characters from the Wizard of Oz. We have the following 2 flying monkeys, 2 lollipop munchkins, 1 yellow brick road, 1 wizard, a tin man, scarecrow, toto, Wicked Witch, Glinda, and of course Dorthy.


Rusty made a fabulous lollipop munchkin. Video was even taken of him doing the lollipop guild song and dance from the movie. And believe it or not, Kate loved wearing her costume.

I didn't post a picture of myself but I can be seen in the group shot. I was a flyling monkey and wore a full fur suit the entire evening. We had a great time and I loved dressing up. It's so much more fun when you are not the only one who looks ridiculous.

Happy Birthday Kate!

Need I say more to show how blessed we've been over the past year.

Pumpkin Patch

We went to the Pumpkin Patch at Mother Nature's Farms while Julianne was here visiting. We had a great time. I was excited to show Kate all of the pumpkins. She had never seen one before and didn't really know what to do with them. She sat on them, licked them, and tried to pick them up but ended up just dropping them.


At the pumpkin patch there was a maze made out of hay. Kate did great and walked through the first part all by herself. However a bunch of big kids ran behind her and scared her so she cried until someone held her and walked through the rest of the maze.


Kate and Cousin Emilia loved sitting with grandpa on the tractor.


The girls got to decorate a mini pumpkin with foam letters and shapes. Kate didn't really get the idea.


Kate went inside her first "bounce house". She loved it! She didn't really know how to bounce inside, but enjoyed falling down and then getting back up only to fall back down again.

Cheap Family Photo